Most of my comments were covered by Mr. Bachrach and Mr. Strahl. However, I do want to highlight that there has been a continuous problem of wasting money on consultants. Taxpayers have very deep concerns about this. Given that $900,000 was spent on consultants with no viable project, I think it is incumbent on sitting members to recognize the concerns that taxpayers would have with this and to call for transparency. This information was not revealed until an Order Paper question was submitted to find out details. It was not posted on the CIB's website.
It's very important that taxpayers have a right to hear about this instrument of the CIB, whereby we are giving low-cost interest rates when the average taxpayer is sometimes paying 8% to 10% on their mortgage and is struggling, and when we have two million people going to food banks every month.
The issue of transparency is very important to see what happened with this $900,000 to ensure that this does not happen again in the future and to ensure that there is respect for taxpayers' dollars.
Thank you.